Implacable foes war in the Pacific, 1944-1945
"At the end of World War Two, Americans clamored for their troops to come home. Politics intruded upon military policy while a new and untested president struggled to strategize among a military command that was often mired in rivalry. The task of defeating the Japanese seemed nearly unsurmount...
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New York :
Oxford University Press
2017
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gaining momentum
- Moving ahead on New Guinea, April-July, 1944
- The Marianas campaign, June-August, 1944
- Accelerating the advance, August-October, 1944
- Leyte to Manila, October, 1944-March, 1945
- Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945
- Recovering Luzon, February-June, 1945
- Beyond human endurance: taking all of the Philippines, February-June, 1945
- Okinawa, April-June, 1945
- Two down and one to go: the home front, March-June, 1945
- Between war and peace, June-July, 1945
- Potsdam, July-August, 1945
- Surrender at last, August, 1945.
